Principal: Ms Tanya Moran
Headteacher: Mr Rory Vokes-Dudgeon
Head of Senior: Mr James Gilbert-Farrell
Assistant Head of Senior: Ms Nadia Carella
Head of Prep: Mr Christopher Lloyd
Assistant Head of Prep: Ms Cullen
Head of SEN: Ms Susannah Harris
Bursar: Ms Jenny Fromer
Senior Administrator, Marketing and Admissions: Ms Claire Essien
Senior Administrator, Office Manager and H&S: Ms Karen Franklin
Age range. 7–19 Co-educational.
Number of pupils. 143.
Fees per term (2024-2025). £16,237.
Abingdon House Senior is located in a refurbished Victorian building in London NW1 on four levels, with facilities to educate up to 90 pupils aged between 11–19 years of age (Years 7–13). The school has specific expertise in the education of children who have Specific Learning Difficulties, such as dyslexia, dyspraxia and ADD/ADHD, autistic spectrum condition, social communication difficulties and other associated needs.
Abingdon House Prep was established in September 2022. It is located in South Kensington with facilities to educate up to 90 pupils aged between 7–13 years of age (Years 3–8).
The school provides a warm, nurturing and aspirational learning environment where the specific individual learning needs of our students are fully supported in a mainstream styled environment. At Abingdon House School, we provide an integrated, whole-school multidisciplinary approach to meeting the needs of students, with unique learning profiles based on understanding your child’s individual needs, nurturing their academic and social development and caring for their wellbeing.
We foster a sense of pride and belonging that encourages your child to progress and achieve at school, and prepares them for independence beyond our doors.
Effective learning and teaching is based on understanding a child's individual needs, nurturing a child's academic and social development and caring for a child’s wellbeing. The environment is therefore warm and friendly and we are committed to each child's holistic development.
We deliver this through:
•The provision of a holistic and individually tailored education programme.
•A whole-school teaching regime of small classes with teaching assistants, therapists and trained staff using a range of teaching strategies and therapeutic interventions. There is an appropriately low pupil to teacher ratio. Many pupils have integrated successfully into various London day schools.
•Developing, monitoring and implementing an IEP (Individual Education Plan) for each pupil, which details SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Timely) targets and describes the strategies and supports required to achieve those targets.
•Monitoring pupil progress through a rigorous system of assessment and tracking.
•Implementing a consistent system of positive behaviour support.
•Facilitating pupil-centred active learning.
•Placing special emphasis on the development of literacy and numeracy, social skills, language and communication and coordination, sequencing and movement.
Effort and achievement are praised and rewarded to build self-esteem. Pupils are given the opportunity for their efforts and achievements to be recognised and celebrated on a regular basis culminating in an end-of-term Musical Performance and Prize Giving.
We offer a full curriculum. PE/Games take place on a weekly basis at school and in local community facilities. Reading, Literacy and Maths lessons are ability grouped to enable pupils to progress as soon as they are ready. After-school clubs are offered several times a week.
We value teamwork and the partnership between parents and staff.